Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman

Name: Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
Director: Adrian Shergold
Genre: Drama, History
Released: 2005
Rating: 7
Cast: Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, Mary Stockley, Lizzie Hopley, Joyia Fitch

"1940's England. When the world needed a hero, he gave them what they wanted. But history can be cruel."

7/10

2005

1h 38m

Drama

History

Overview

Following in his father's footsteps, Albert Pierrepoint becomes one of Britain's most prolific executioners, hiding his identity as a grocery deliveryman. But when his ambition to be the best inadvertently exposes his gruesome secret, he becomes a minor celebrity & faces a public outcry against the practice of hanging. Based on true events.